Simon Willison’s Weblog

Traffic Server. Mark Nottingham explains the release of Traffic Server, a new Apache Incubator open source project donated by Yahoo! using code originally developed at Inktomi around a decade ago. Traffic Server is a HTTP proxy/cache, similar to Squid and Varnish (though Traffic Server acts as both a forward and reverse proxy, whereas Varnish only handles reverse).

# 1st November 2009, 12:15 pm / apache, cache, http, inktomi, mark-nottingham, open-source, proxy, squid, trafficserver, varnish, yahoo

ncache. A squid-style caching system built on top of nginx. Supports the HTTP PURGE method for cache invalidation.

# 18th June 2008, 8:09 pm / cache, http, ncache, nginx, purge, squid

Browser Cache Usage—Exposed! Includes real numbers for browser cache usage on some of Yahoo!’s most popular pages.

# 7th January 2007, 10:20 pm / cache, performance, yahoo